{"id":48177,"date":"2022-09-05T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T02:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/05\/high-profile-white-nationalist-stands-for-position-on-new-zealand-school-board"},"modified":"2022-09-05T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T02:10:05","slug":"high-profile-white-nationalist-stands-for-position-on-new-zealand-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48177","title":{"rendered":"High-profile white nationalist stands for position on New Zealand school board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions have been raised over laws governing school boards after Philip Arps nominated for a position at a multicultural Christchurch college<\/p>\n<p>A white nationalist convicted of what a judge called \u201cin effect a hate crime\u201d towards Muslims is standing for a seat on the board of a multicultural New Zealand school, sparking alarm over the adequacy of laws governing the influential bodies and a debate about whether people with extremist views should be barred from standing.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Arps, one of nine candidates for five positions on the board of Te Aratai College in Christchurch, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/18\/christchurch-man-jailed-for-sharing-video-footage-of-massacre\">jailed for 21 months in 2019<\/a> for sharing footage of a white supremacist terror attack on two mosques in the South Island city. He asked a friend to modify the footage by adding cross-hairs and a \u201ckill count\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/05\/high-profile-white-nationalist-stands-for-position-on-new-zealand-school-board\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions have been raised over laws governing school boards after Philip Arps nominated for a position at a multicultural Christchurch collegeA white nationalist convicted of what a judge called \u201cin effect a hate crime\u201d towards Muslims is standing for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,213,56,1218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christchurch-shooting","category-new-zealand","category-the-far-right"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48178,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48177\/revisions\/48178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}